Binutils 2.8.0.1

Mark Habersack (grendel@hoth.amu.edu.pl)
Mon, 29 Sep 1997 11:05:40 +0200 (MET DST)

Hi,
I don't know whether any of you is using binutils 2.8.0.1, but there's a
problem with the objdump utility. Version contained in 2.8.0.1 doesn't support
the two flags used by Linux makefiles, namely "-k -q". While the latter is not
really important (--quiet), the former dumps out the raw section data, which
is used when making ELF linux image. From the new objdump's docs, it seems
that the "--full-contents" option is much the same as "-k" befor. But.... it
only seems so - linux image created with it didn't work, the system hung up
right after "Uncompressing Linux..." message - it probably never even touched
the bootup code. Has any of you faced that problem, or maybe my copy of
binutils is FUBAR? If it's not, then it's surely a compatibility problem,
since I reckon that all new binutils will _not_ support these two "old"
options.

Regards,
Marek